Company Profile
Company Overview
Welcome to the Dockwise Ltd. website and thank you for visiting. Dockwise is dedicated to "Creating superior value by realizing the inconceivable." To ensure the company's sustainable growth of revenues and profit through economic and market cycles, the strategic vision of the Dockwise Ltd. group is focused on offering increasingly differentiated service packages based on clear directives for each operating company.
The Dockwise Ltd. group consists of four, global operating companies: Dockwise B.V., Dockwise Yacht Transport LLC, Offshore Kinematics Inc. and Ocean Dynamics LLC., which all provide specialty services primarily in the heavy marine transport and the oil and gas services industries.
Company History
In 1993 Wijsmuller Transport and Dock Express Shipping agreed to combine their interests to become the world's largest and most versatile seagoing heavy transport shipping company. With a fleet of 11 vessels and 4 in management Dockwise was founded. Other milestones include:
1992: Wijsmuller Transport (a division of Heerema) and Dock Express Shipping (a division of Royal Vopak, formerly Van Ommeren), established one joint venture, United Yacht Transport.
1993: Merger completed, a new company called Dockwise was born based.
1996: Dockwise expanded its versatile fleet with four Swan class dual-purpose heavy transport carriers. They were acquired from Frederiksen and added to the Dockwise fleet.
1997: Dockwise was the first heavy transport shipping company to be awarded ISM Code certification by the Netherlands Shipping Inspectorate.
1999: Dockwise took delivery of the jumboised Mighty Servant 1 from the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in Okpo, South Korea. This vessel had been widened by 10 metres and lengthened by 30 metres. With this enlargement it became the largest ship in the Dockwise fleet.
2001: Merger of Dockwise and Offshore Heavy Transport ASA (OHT). This added the two heavy transport vessels, the Black Marlin and the Blue Marlin, to the Dockwise fleet.
2003: First involvement in float-over project: TOTALELF, Amenam, 11,200 metric tons.
2004: After conversion at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in Ulsan, South Korea, where the Blue Marlin had been widened by 21 metres, she re-entered service as the world's largest heavy transport vessel. Dockwise set a new record by delivering BP’s 59,500-ton semi-submersible Thunder Horse platform in Corpus Christi, USA.
2005: The Blue Marlin transported the 30,000 metric tons U.S. missile defense system SBX (Sea-Based X-band Radar) from the yard in Ingleside, Texas, U.S.A. to the Pacific via South America.
2006: Offshore services company Heerema Group and Norwegian
maritime group Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA announced and agreed the buyout of Dockwise Transport N.V. In January 2007 3i completed the buy out of Dockwise.
2007: Dockwise merged with Sealift Ltd. and became a listed company in
Norway, Sealift Ltd renamed Dockwise Ltd.
Acquisition of OKI and ODL, companies specializing in the design, engineering and installation of offshore modules.
Full listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
2009: Dockwise successfully performed the USD 33 million complete transport and float-over installation of 19,000 metric tons MDPP offshore production platform for CPOC located at the JDA Block B-17, C-19 and B-17-01.
December 3, 2009: Secondary listing of Dockwise Ltd. on Euronext Amsterdam.
Today: Dockwise is acknowledged as a leading specialist in heavy transport shipping, that owns 19 semi-submersible vessels. Activities include the design, engineering, planning and logistics necessary to ensure satisfactory collection, transport and delivery of cargoes. These cargoes can range from a small sailing or motor yachts of just 10 tons in weight to a large, ultra-heavy and fully-integrated production and drilling platform weighing up to 73,000 tons.
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